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Oil Drops Amid Biden's Emergency Crude Plan
President Joe Biden announced plans to tap into additional supplies of strategic reserves, saying they're going to be stepping in and buying when WTI is priced around the $67 to $72 a barrel mark. Stephen Stapczynski reports on Bloomberg...
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TikTok Teens Reserved Trump Tickets With No Plans to Go
Jun.21 -- A new generation of social media users may have been behind the lower turnout at President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Some teenage TikTokers ordered tickets with no intention of attending. Sarah Frier reports on...
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House Committee Hearing on Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Begins
Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, delivers his opening statement. The panel opened a series of hearings with a prime-time session aired live by most major US television...
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Trump Hasn’t Ordered Slower Coronavirus Testing: McEnany
Jun.22 -- White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany says President Donald Trump was joking on Saturday when he said at a rally that he had asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing, and that he had made no such order....
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Trump Disavows Violence, Says Free Speech Under Assault
Jan.13 -- President Donald Trump calls on Americans to avoid further violence after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach for his role in a riot by his supporters that stormed the Capitol and left five people dead. He also...
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Biden Signs Act to Speed Weapons Delivery to Ukraine
President Joe Biden signed into law a measure designed to make it easier for the U.S. to send weapons and supplies to Ukraine. The measure borrows its name from a law that ended the U.S. policy of neutrality ahead of World War II and...
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Ukraine Update: Putin Says Peace Talks at 'Dead End'
Russian President Vladimir Putin says peace talks with Ukraine are "at a dead end." Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy again called for further European Union sanctions on Russia. Jodi Schneider reports on "Bloomberg...
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Austrian Chancellor Not Optimistic After Putin Talks
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer became the first European Union leader to visit President Vladimir Putin in Moscow since the start of the war, and said he's pessimistic over peace prospects. Meanwhile, European Union nations urgently...
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Eurasia Sees More Scrutiny of Chinese Companies Doing Business in US
Anna Ashton, China corporate affairs and US-China director at Eurasia Group, discusses the midterm elections, the implications for bilateral relations and businesses. President Joe Biden said he expects to discuss issues including Taiwan...
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Analysing Trump the Man, Trump the White House Appointer
November 17 -- President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team gave its first detailed update amid reports of infighting and disorganization. In a conference call with reporters Wednesday night, aides named more than a dozen people who...
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Will Team Trump's Fed Bond Cut Call Sway Rate Path?
November 16 -- Bond investors may have another reason to worry after Donald Trump’s election last week: Some of his allies are not fans of the Federal Reserve’s big balance sheet of bonds and want the central bank to shrink it. Bond...
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Trump Doubles Down on Lawmaker Attacks
Jul.15 -- President Trump doubled down on his attacks on four minority female congresswomen. He started his attacks on Twitter over the weekend and now has stood his ground at an event at the White House. Bloomberg’s Caitlin Webber...
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Biden: Words of a President Matter Whether Good or Bad
Sep.03 -- Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says "the words of a president matter, no matter if they are good, bad or indifferent, they matter," and refers to Donald Trump' remarks in 2017 when the President said there were...
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U.S. Sanctions Entities Aiding N. Korea Weapons Program
The U.S. is sanctioning entities and individuals for aiding the development of North Korea's missile program. The move comes as President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned North Korea's launch of what they...
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Trump Says He Will Make 'Big Announcement' on Nov. 15
Former President Donald Trump, speaking on the eve of US midterm elections at a rally ostensibly for Republican US Senate candidate JD Vance in Dayton, Ohio, said will be be making a "very big announcement" next week. (Excerpt)
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Biden Is Said to Be Close to Rollback Some China Tariffs
President Joe Biden may announce a rollback of some US tariffs on Chinese consumer goods as soon as this week as the administration seeks means to fight accelerating inflation, according to people people familiar with the deliberations....
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Is Populist Politics About to Take Over the World?
November 16 -- When you first encounter the word “populism,†you might think it’s a close cousin of democracy, with all the positive connotations that go along with it. And for some, it may well seem a purer form of a process by...
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Trump Says He Downplayed Virus Threat to Avoid 'Panic'
Sep.09 -- President Donald Trump defends telling journalist Bob Woodward that he intentionally downplayed the severity of the coronavirus in public, saying he didn’t want to cause panic or price spikes. He speaks at a press briefing....
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Trump Assails China Over Virus as Xi Pushes Back
Sep.22 -- President Donald Trump assailed China for the coronavirus pandemic in a speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly aimed squarely at U.S. voters, calling on the international body to punish Beijing. China’s...
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Trump Says He'll Sign Executive Order on Police Conduct
Jun.15 -- President Donald Trump says he'll sign an executive order on policing. His remarks at the White House come amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. (Excerpt)
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Trump: Three Vaccine Candidates Looking 'Really Good'
Jul.02 -- President Donald Trump says three vaccine candidates for Covid-19 are "looking really, really good" in trials. He also says the military is standing by, ready to distribute the vaccines. He speaks at a White House event. (Excerpt)
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FAANG Stocks Are Overvalued, the Lerner Group Says
Dec.27 -- Vanessa Martinez, managing director and partner of the Lerner Group, discusses the outlook for technology and e-commerce stocks, and looks at what the Covid-19 vaccinations and President Donald Trump's signing of a bill...
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DeVos Quits as Trump Faces Mounting Calls for Removal
Jan.07 -- U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos becomes the second member of Donald Trump’s cabinet to quit as the President comes under mounting calls to be immediately removed from office or to resign over the riot by his supporters at...
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Trump Pardons Ex-Campaign Chief Manafort, Adviser Stone
Dec.23 -- Donald Trump pardoned his 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort, using his executive power in his final weeks as president to free an ally who’d been convicted of financial crimes and illegal lobbying. Trump also pardoned Roger...